Quoting: chickenb00I bought Alan Wake 2

Since it's unlikely to come to Steam, I'm waiting for the PS5 version to have a nice sale. Or maybe Epic will make it one of their weekly free games eventually.

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Quoting: EikeAccording to what I read, most US states do have sales taxes

Generally not on digital items, and also usually quite a bit lower than VAT (rough guess average of about 8%).

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI fear they will be getting massive government bailouts, like in 2008. "Risk" is for us little people.

https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/donald-trump-will-bail-out-crypto-holders-2026-2025-12-22/ [External Link]

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Quoting: PyreticUnfortunately, NVIDIA's and AMD's Vulkan drivers on Windows is such a goddamn mess

There's quite a history of poor OpenGL support from smaller GPU vendors (most of whom went out of business), and AMD has always had rather lackluster drivers (it's so much better having Red Hat, Valve, Google, and so on, doing the Linux drivers - if you've been around long enough to remember fglrx, you know how much better it is now). But as far as I know, iD did quite well making Windows games that used OpenGL and Vulkan... they were probably the largest, but certainly not the only ones?

Rather than the drivers being "a goddamn mess", I suspect a lot of it is the game engines being the problem. Godot shouldn't have that problem, but I have no idea what issues people ran into (maybe Intel and AMD Windows driver bugs?).

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Quoting: Mountain Manany product that depends on servers will be required to carry a prominent disclaimer that necessary online services could be discontinued at any time without warning.

I suppose even that would be an improvement, for games where it is not obvious. Far short of the intent behind the campaign, but sidesteps the appearance of deceit (you bought it with knowledge that we could screw you over at any time). I'm sure there's limitations of liability involved there - i.e. stop selling the game x months prior to final shut off.

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Quoting: Phlebiac(BanjoRecompiled:22645): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 22:01:17.745: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Then getting a SIGSEGV and crashing out

The flatpak version doesn't crash out, but tells me my ROM is the wrong version. Guess I can't win. :)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: PhlebiacBoth this and Zelda64 crash out when I select the "Load ROM" menu option. I'm guessing it's supposed to show a file picker?

If you want to deep dive, strace would probably tell you what they're trying to load there.

Good call, but I'm not sure it tells me much: it looks like it's reading every file under /usr/share/applications (*.desktop files), then looking in /usr/share/cloud-providers (doesn't exist), then getting the pid and reading /etc/localtime to dump out this error message:
(BanjoRecompiled:22645): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 22:01:17.745: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

Then getting a SIGSEGV and crashing out:

ioctl(2, TCGETS, {c_iflag=ICRNL|IXON|IUTF8, c_oflag=NL0|CR0|TAB0|BS0|VT0|FF0|OPOST|ONLCR, c_cflag=B38400|CS8|CREAD, c_lflag=ISIG|ICANON|ECHO|ECHOE|ECHOK|IEXTEN|ECHOCTL|ECHOKE, ...}) = 0
getpid() = 22645
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2852, ...}, 0) = 0
write(2, "\n(BanjoRecompiled:22645): GLib-G"..., 128) = 128
write(2, "ject)' failed\n", 14) = 14
--- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0x18} ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++

Tried Zelda64, and that one worked today. Brought up the file picker, I selected the ROM, and it all works now, even though it was failing the same as Banjo before...

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Quoting: CaldathrasNot sure about the other effects, but the first one is available on GNOME

Window animations of many kinds, supporting both GNOME and KDE:
https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows [External Link]

Desktop cube for GNOME (same author):
https://github.com/Schneegans/Desktop-Cube [External Link]

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Both this and Zelda64 crash out when I select the "Load ROM" menu option. I'm guessing it's supposed to show a file picker?

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Quoting: emphyOn the upside, one can play the original trilogy, including multiplayer, via the native aleph one open source engine.

And even conveniently available on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Aleph%20One%20Developers [External Link]

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